“We cringe about that poor choice today,” said one of the organizers, Helen Tsalevich.

In the four years since the group has become huge, with 677 members listed on their Meetup.com page. In July, they even established their first-ever Brooklyn chapter.

Each monthly meeting attracts a devoted group of women — and so far, only women — ready to discuss novels such as “Perv” by Dakota Gray, “Beyond Shame” by Kit Rocha and “Dark Lover” by J.R. Ward. The Manhattan event usually takes place at Nelly Spillane’s pub in Murray Hill, and the Brooklyn crew takes over Patty’s of Park Slope.

“Where else can you talk about these books? Because there’s certainly not another smut-book club around,” Schmidt told the Brooklyn Paper. “And if people are reading it — they’re usually reading it themselves.”

And it’s important that the sex is both steamy and smart.

“We have several professional writers in the group, so it has to be well written or they will be disappointed,” said Tsalevich.

However, the women still fall hard for Fabio’s seductive, manly mane.

“We are not opposed to sexy Fabio-style [book] covers,” said Tsalevich. Among their pictorial favorites: “A sexy bare-chested vampire, Scottish highlander, pirate, motorcycle-club member or even a woman with two hot men!”